Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes ("Re: Replace the TC power to depose maintainers"):
> Le lundi, 5 décembre 2016, 14.41:01 h CET Ian Jackson a écrit :
> > 6+ weeks during which members of the TC have been prevaricating.
>
> I had to lookup prevaricate in a dictionary:
> > to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an
> > incorrect impression
> > to deviate from the truth
>
> This is not helping, really. Please tone down.
That's not what meant by "prevaricate". I asked #chiark about the
meaning of the word and they said:
17:34 <Diziet> What does the channel think "prevaricate" means ?
17:34 <X> to put off, possibly while pretending not to
17:35 <Z> avoid a decision or question
17:35 <Z> "we'll tell you later"
17:35 <A> like procrastination but for speech
17:35 <B> to waver over a decision and postpone making it.
I certainly didn't mean to suggest dishonesty. Apologies for the
offence.
> Frankly, with the timing, content and tone of your meta-interventions around
> the "recent case" we're talking about, you have just added two more weeks to
> the process. I now took some time to address these meta-concerns, while I
> could have have focused on gathering commitments from the actual and
> prospective maintainers of src:global instead, and drafted a ballot.
The decision to give the package to the prospective new maintainers
could and should have been made 4 weeks ago. It's a complete
no-brainer.
The easy way to address my meta-concerns would have been to
demonstrate them wrong! (Or at least to quickly rob me of this
absolutely excellent example.)
Ian.
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